TEACHING IN "NEW TIMES"
المؤلف:
Tara Goldstein
المصدر:
Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School
الجزء والصفحة:
P20-C1
2025-09-23
185
TEACHING IN "NEW TIMES"
Before moving on to a description and analysis of the choices, risks, and dilemmas that come up for students and teachings in multilingual schools, a brief word seems important about the broader relevance of the Northside study. In discussing and sharing parts of the topic with a number of people living in different parts of the world, it became clear that the linguistic and academic issues that have been raised at Northside have also been raised for others who live and work in other multilingual communities. A play writing colleague from a small town in Wisconsin told me that my play, Hong Kong, Canada, resonated with her experience of growing up in a town that hosted a large number of families from Laos. Similarly, teachers and students in Brisbane, Sydney, and Toowoomba, Australia, who work with people from many different parts of Asia, found the issues raised at Northside were reflected in their own schools.
One of the reasons that the issues raised at Northside are familiar to those living in other parts of the world has to do with the impact of globalization. In the last 20 years, globalization has brought unprecedented economic, cultural, and technological changes. One of these changes is mass immigration, which is very different from the immigration of post-war times. Many immigrant elementary and secondary school students in our "New Times" are growing up with several cultures. They are living in more than one community and hear and speak more than one language.1 For example, there are many Asian students attending Canadian and American schools who travel back and forth between North America and Hong Kong and Taiwan to visit parents and/or other close relatives who live and work there. They continue to access and consume Chinese pop culture from Hong Kong and Taiwan through the Internet, cable TV, CDs, and videos. I understand that this is also the case in some parts of Australia. Learning to work effectively with students who call more than one place home and have strong affiliations in more than one community is critical to good teaching of "New Times." We need to develop new understandings about the lives and needs of our immigrant students. In a small way, we attempt to begin a discussion about what such an understanding entails.
1 The term New Times has been to used by several writers to refer to the economic, cultural, and technological changes associated with globalization. See, for example, Hall (1996) and Luke (1999).
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